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Happy Wednesday Fandom :) It's crazy we are over ten eps in s5 already. Just means we're closer to this premiere yay. (it's 34 btw...) I adore this episode. I think it’s highly underrated because it’s the episode before 5x12. There are so many reasons to love this one. Flirty times, Return of Genny and Lucy, We get a taste of them as parents in this one and Lucy is a Grade A BAMF. Let us get started.

5x11 The Naked and The Dead

We start out with Tim being perplexed by the new coffee machine. Asking what was wrong with the old one? Being her grumpy old man about it. Nolan and Lucy start listing off reasons. Like led levels and Lucy mentions a mice infestation. Eww lol The growth in this scene is pretty cute though. It's how he easily steps aside to let her do it for him. No fight in him about it whatsoever. Just lets wifey do her thing.

How far we’ve come. She shows him how to do it and he is impressed with her. What else is new? heh But he's extra impressed cause she is girl now hehe Lucy tells him she learned from a clip talk tutorial on how to do it. John asks what they got up to last night? Tim on the instant defensive. Says ‘Nothing.’ way too quickly.

My god Timothy it’s a good thing it’s Nolan and not Nyla. Captain clueless over here doesn’t suspect a thing thankfully. Lucy of course is far more prepared than her boyfriend is. Because well it’s Lucy. I adore her being so smooth about it. Doesn't miss a beat. Hands her man his coffee as she easily delivers her cover story. Honestly if anyone was going to blow their cover it was Tim LOL

John dips out and thanks Lucy for the bar and the recommendation. Minute he’s gone Lucy gives him such crap for his terrible answer. Saying he had all morning to come up with a cover story and that was it? Tim defending himself saying Nolan bought it. Yeah cause it’s Nolan... Had it been anyone else in their orbit they would’ve been caught. Lucy is judging him so hard for this. I love it so much. Such a wifey moment right here.

Tim challenges her and asks what Nolan has follow up questions? Lucy confidently telling him she read the catalog cover to cover. Of course she did. I expect nothing less tbh. Neither should you Tim ha His reaction is the best. Like if you weren’t my girlfriend be calling you a nerd right now. But we all know he loves his nerd and her brain. Her intelligence/intense drive is one of the reasons he fell for her. God they cute.

Tim mentions she has citizens academy today. Lucy says yes and asks for any tips? Per usual he warns her about screenwriters haha That she shouldn't give out her card or she will be up to her eye balls in scripts. Lucy then segues into their plans for tonight. Flirty af as she does. Asking what he’s doing tonight? So much behind her question. Looking so very excited to ask him it. Radiating happiness as she does.

They could not be more flirty if they tried in this scene and I love it. I remember squeeing because this was the place we we're in now. Tim flirting right back ‘Nothing. I hope.’ *heart clutch* Lucy shooting tons of heart eyes his way. Letting him know that ‘Nothing sounds perfect.' Who would've thought the word 'Nothing.' could sound so romantic? Yet these two did it. The smirk on his face as she walks away from him is everything.

Oh my lord this man is a goner for her. Never seen this man smile more this entire series than he has since he started dating Lucy. They are giving off teenagers sneaking around and in love vibe here. Their secret dating era is just a primo as their longing/pining one. I love this season so much. Could they be anymore adorable flirting in the break room? Talking about cover stories and doing ‘Nothing.’ Gah I love it so much. It's all so new and exciting and it's coming off them in waves. I'm soaking it up like a sponge of shippy happiness.

This next portion is adorable. I love Aaron literally running to Lucy to tell her about Tim coaching little league. He is so excited to share this with her haha I am a fan of trio not gonna lie. Tim rolling his eyes when she says ‘Nolan.’ I mean it is a very John Nolan thing to do let’s be honest… Aaron calling him ‘Sergeant Friendly’ and not being pummeled by Tim just shows what a good place he’s in with Lucy.

Lucy saying ‘Can she watch?’ doing things to me. Sounded way flirtier than I’m sure she meant it to. Or maybe she did mean it that way heh Like girl we know you wanna watch him for quite a few reasons...Also you know she’s proud of him for being the good uncle and stepping up. The heart eyes are infinite at the end from her. She is proud of him for doing this. If it was possible he became even more attractive to her because of this.

Lucy shows up to practice and see’s Tim in coach mode. She is looking so very amused. Especially with how soft he is being. Watching her boyfriend who she knows can be a hard ass be soft af with these kids. Also if they think Genny doesn’t know they’re out of their damn minds. It’s all over her face as they banter with each other. Platonic co-workers don’t show up to their co worker's nephews practice and 'bicker'.

Married vibes x 1000 here and Genny is picking up what they’re throwing down. Tim is so excited to see her when she shows up. No way his sister doesn’t see a shift in his demeanor. Lucy couldn’t have a bigger smile on her face as she teases him. Tim being the exasperated husband per usual. Saying they’re just kids it's supposed to be fun. Her teasing is extra smitten like I have to say. Showing all your cards today you two. Right in front of Genny LOL

The sister in law bonding continues as Tim walks away. Which I absolutely adore btw. Lucy asking 'This is weird right?' Genny regaling her of how their dad taught his team as a kid. Tim having literal scars from it. It’s then it all comes together for Lucy. Tying back to that moment in 4x09. ‘You’re nothing like him.’ Lucy immediately getting why he’s acting this way.

He will do anything not to be like his father. I could not relate to that more if I tried. I see you Tim and I so understand. Lucy instantly softens and says this back to Genny. Knowing exactly what’s bringing on this soft streak of his. We watch as the kids continue to suck lol. Tim doing a thumbs up and I’m dying of laughter. Lucy sees why he’s doing this but says he is also over correcting in this approach.

This scene is a look into them as parents and it's making me very happy. The control freak in Lucy can’t stand back any longer. I love this part so much. She takes control and provides the kids with some knowledge and structure. Also like to call this the scene where Tim falls even more in love with her. He couldn’t be more proud as she takes control. Not only that but is knowledgeable about the game he loves. Win win.

He is looking at her like yep that’s the future mother of my kids. I love her walking up and the kids just follow. Her leadership is on fire right now. Tim asks her what she’s doing? Lucy saying yeah they can have fun but they also need structure. She’s not wrong… Totally going to be them as parents. Lucy being the stricter one with structure. Where Tim will be the softie wanting their kids just to have fun.

So cute how bemused Tim looks when she calls herself his ‘friend.’ Knowing they are far more than that now. Gah love Eric and his expressions. I’m a sucker for them. Lucy breaks down what they’re going to be doing. Not only that but the confidence she exudes while doing that has Tim beaming at her. Like look at his girl taking control and being knowledgeable about baseball. Seriously it's like he is falling even deeper in love with her based on this alone. How could he not?

Don’t tell me that man wasn’t turned on by this whole display either. Heart eyes galore but a little hot under the collar as well. You know he loves when she’s assertive. It’s a huge turn on for him. He’s basically scoping her out in front of those kids haha It’s this mixture of pride and being so immensely attracted to her. The man is in awe of this woman standing next to him.

The way he looks at her I’m just a damn puddle. If that man looked at me that way I would melt. Instantly. Lucy does melt a little when she catches his eye in the first gif above. You can see her crack a smile when their eyes connect. It's so cute. Once again I ask have we ever seen this man this damn happy before? No. Not till Lucy. I love him telling them when she’s done. ‘You heard her.’ Like you heard my wife get going. haha

The teasing is the cutest. It’s like we’re getting on screen fanfic levels of fluff in this episode. I'm so here for it. Just beaming heart eyes at each before he teases her with the ball. Her ‘Oh.’ When he takes the ball out of her reach. I cannot. I’m dying with the how adorable this whole thing is. My god they’re basically screaming their relationship to Genny in this moment.

I must also note my god Tim looks good. Doing what he does best. Takes a simple outfit like shirt and ball cap makes it sinfully delicious. Sweet lord he looks SOOOO good in outfit. Mmmm break me off a piece. My fav color too so that definitely adds to it for me. *fans self*

We catch up with them post practice. Genny comments they should co-coach together. They both make little jokes about it basically flirting in front of her. Do they see themselves and their looks? No? Ok... Genny redirecting their attention to how well they work together. Tim stumbling over his words instantly. Thinking they're being caught.

Lucy swoops in to save his ass like she did with Nolan ha Now her reply is shaky as well but better than Tim’s LOL They’re so bad at hiding this it’s hilarious. Tim following up with a ‘Mmhmm….’ As transparent as glass you two. A blind man could see how in love you are. Sweet lord.

Just being idiots in love in front of his sister ain’t no thing….Fairly certain Genny knows but is just testing the waters with her comments. No way she doesn’t see a difference in her own brother. Sure she sensed something in 4x08/4x09. This entire interaction only heightened it. Tim being the least subtle person on the planet in this moment. I love him so much. He sure is trying. lol

Lucy gets a call from the shelter so she steps away. Her domestic she got in is causing problems. She goes back to Tim and lets him know something going on with it. He is the worried boyfriend and asks if she wants him to come with? Which I adore. He know she can handle herself but wants to offer it anyways.

Just wanting to be near her at all times right now which is adorable. Also that instinct inside him to want accompany her incase she needs him. Being the supportive lovely boyfriend he is. Lucy declines and he respects her wanting to handle it on her own. Because he knows she can. Gah I love them. It’s the little things.

We rejoin them at the baseball game and I’m dying how cute they are. Lucy is losing her mind over the game and it's hysterical to watch unfold. Tim tells her to be encouraging haha How far we’ve come from Grey telling Tim to do as such back in 4x02. Love seeing that translate into this. Lucy tries to correct herself but doesn't convince Tim very well on it. His reply of 'We're gonna work on that...' I'm rollin. This is so adorable.

Lucy’s competitive side coming out and he has to have her take down just a notch. LOL The biggest trip is Tim being the kind encouraging one where Lucy is being the more competitive intense one ha. The dynamic shift here is unreal. I just love how involved she gets into this. This is something he loves and she is right there with him on it. I just love that he now has someone to do this stuff with. Happily too.

Not only that but Lucy is very into it at this point. I adore him leaning in to hear her. Tim has to calm her down though. haha I love her telling him she’s excited and he says ‘I know.’ Just letting Lucy be herself 100 percent. He loves her for who she is and vice versa and I'm a puddle. I am also excited Lucy has someone she can be herself fully around. Each found their person and it shows.

Lucy is losing her mind over this game and he gets it. Gah I love them so much everyone. This was such a cute mini moment. He is loving her competitive energy but is trying to tamp it down a little as well LOL Just a husband trying to calm down his overly competitive wife. It’s so cute I’m dying.

The cuteness continues on as they try and hype up one of the kids. I love them cheering Blake on together. Serious married baseball parents vibes. Just being proud parents clapping together. Wearing matching outfits having the same cute energy. This is them as parent's I am convinced. We are looking into the future people.

I also don't hate seeing Tim's biceps in action in these shots Mmm. Yum. I saw someone make a comment that they felt Dad Eric vibes in this scene. I can see it. The way he posts like a proud papa about his kids this is totally in line with that. It's pretty adorable to watch.

The high five turning into a hand hold is adorable and subtle af guys. I did see a BTS post awhile back on here about this. Eric said he and Melissa had a bet. Something about who would have that piece of paper in their end by end of the ep. Something like that. So that’s all I see now when I see the high five and hand hold. LOL Such goobers and I love them for it.

Either way they are disgustingly cute to end this episode. Lucy being the overly competitive mom. Tim has to keep her from scaring the kids is gold. This episode was tons of cuteness and flirty times. Was the perfect episode to follow 5x10 and pre-cursor to 5x12. They got to just be them and have time outside the station together. Just to be a couple and hang out. I loved it sfm.

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Side notes-non Chenford

I will forever adore how Lucy handled that whole Domestic solo. I made a post after this ep premiered about how proud I was of her. How deeply she has grown as a cop and a person. How she doesn't let that abusive asshat rattle her cage in the least. The way she flashes her badge at him and says they're not done talking yet when he is trying to pull her from Lucy. Hot damn. My girl crush is back LMAO

Not only that but take his ass down later. Solo. Has the matter in hand by the time the cavalry arrives. How far she’s come from that moment in the sewers with Nyla back in S2. How proud Harper would be of her. She already is with her UC work but she commands this entire situation. From Start to finish. Takes down a guy twice her size by herself. Just so proud of her growth. The confident BAMF she’s come gah I love it sfm.

Don't usually do gifs in side notes but there were some good side note gifs. LOL Eric at it again with expressions and I'm laughing so hard. If you wanted to see what Tim thinks of Nolan in a moment it's that expression above. Lucy calling John a bad ass and Tim isn't so sure he agrees with her LMFAO. I'm with you babe idk I do either...

The sole purpose of this gif is just to drool and gawk at how damn good Tim looks in the field in this scene. I could care less about the SL LOL It's the tight red shirt, the jeans with his cuffs in the back, the vest with his badge showing, those delicious fit biceps of his, that shot of his forearm as he opens the door and the way he climbs into that trailer flexing said sexy biceps phew lord. Field Tim does so many things to me. How Lucy waited as long as she did to have that man Idk LOL Imma go get some ice water....

Thank you as always to those who read, like, comment on these reviews you make my whole day every time I see one pop up. I shall see you all in 5x12 :)

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New year, new post!

An LITG Archive Update

January 2, 2024! It's sad to say that the OG app and the third party tool Fusebox had been using is officially dead at this point. I am unsure if modded apps still work, but the unmodded one is no longer working for me, and I cannot pull additional content from it anymore.

I still can't believe the year started on a Monday of all days. I hope everyone had a good New Year's celebration though!

Base Script

Season 1: 0/13 days; 0 Reunion

Season 2: 0.3/30 days; 0 Wedding; 0 CMM

Season 3: 5.6/15 days; 0 Boat Party

Branching

Season 3: 1.3/15 days, mostly filling in Bill and Camilo's scenes. There are some choices in Day 1 Part 1 that are still missing, so if you have these particular scenes, please do let me know!

Coding

Renamed a couple of variables that I had used in the demo to better reflect what I've used in Season 2 and the earlier parts of Season 3. It's not substantive and I'll have to figure out if I have to use functions or just steamroll it with repeating formulas or something. It's nothing unmanageable, so no worries on that end.

So, yeah, that's it! I might put up a poll in the next week or so regarding tutorial content from the game, and regarding free versus gem choices and outfits. I am still thinking on it.

For a more tangible timeline, I am still doing maths, so I don't have anything too far ahead scheduled. I just have one goal for this month.

Target: Demo content update to include Days 1 to 6 from Season 3 by end of the month.

Thank you for your patience.

💕 Pine

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How To Use TradingView Pine Script for Custom Indicators - Technology Org

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How To Use TradingView Pine Script for Custom Indicators - Technology Org

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One of the best ways to customize your trading strategies to meet specific needs on TradingView is with their language, Pine Script, which allows you to create custom trading indicators. You can use these TradingView indicators to analyze the markets and add the data to charts based on your requirements. Let’s take a closer look.

What Is Pine Script?

Pine Script is a programming language native to TradingView. It is used for writing custom indicators and strategies, which you can add to your chart. You can use it for technical analysis that would assist in making informed trading decisions.

The Pine Script tool comes as a special editor in the lower panel of the TradingView app and is designed for writing and editing code. With this editor, you can highlight variables, tooltips, and functions. Pine Script works by automatically highlighting the built-in elements of the language and using additional information to send hints in pop-up windows while trading.

Once you’ve made your customized trading indicator, you can add it to the chart, save it for later, or publish it in the Community Scripts platform for other TradingView users to learn from.

What Are The Benefits of Using Pine Script?

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Pine Script has diverse benefits, starting with the fact that it’s a beginner-friendly scripting language that anyone can learn quickly. Despite being easy to use, the scripting language comes with advanced capabilities. It has been built into the TradingView ecosystem, so it runs on every chart on TradingView.

All the trading indicators on TradingView are built with Pine Script, aside from volume-based indicators. It benefits advanced technical and fundamental analysis and can be implemented quickly, making it widely used and popular. What’s more, it is being updated with new features every month and is available for free.

Pine Script comes with different features for creating custom indicators. It allows you to add and calculate variables, plot your chart, and add indicators. There are also various guides and tutorials that you can use in writing the Pine Script code and plotting your chart. There aren’t a lot of downsides, except that Pine Script cannot import alternative datasets — but this means you get to spend more time learning how it works and becoming more fluent.

How To Get Started With Pine Script

If you want to learn Pine Script, you can do so with basic reference materials. Pine Script comes with a user manual, which offers detailed documentation that explains the main features, structure, and syntax of the language and how Pine Script works.

You can also make use of reference material for all the keywords, functions, and variables that are available. The material also comes with examples of how you can use the code to make your indicators. Another option is PineCoders Resources, an independent community of Pine Script users. You can learn more from other users who are also writing code and also share your code with them.

Another way to learn the Pine Script coding language is with the built-in indicators on TradingView that Pine Script has already written. The code for the indicators available on TradingView is open and available to anyone. Choose the indicator you want, and it will appear in the editor. Then, you can change the code and develop your indicator.

TradingView offers a section where beginners can learn more about the structure of the language. The platform provides simple script examples to help novices understand how the code works and how you can make it work for your requirements.

Who Is Pine Script Best For?

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Pine Script is best for traders who:

already use TradingView indicators and want to build one for themselves.

want to test different trading strategies and ideas without wasting time.

want to learn programming for finance.

are interested in advanced strategies like trend-following, quantifying fundamental analysis, reversion strategies, and high-level quantitative analysis that don’t require extensive CPU usage.

On  the other hand, Pine Script might not be suitable for you if you:

want to build a Market Making Bot.

want to design an HFT strategy.

have learned ML and AI and want to apply that to finance.

want to buy or sell volume, order book or tick data.

Start Your Custom Indicators Journey Today

With our complete guide, you can start creating custom indicators on TradingView with the Pine Script coding, too. The code allows you to develop custom trading indicators, strategies, and alerts that you can use to make more informed decisions when trading. If you can take advantage of Pine Script, you can extensively customize your trading indicators and strategies to meet your trading preferences and needs. The TradingView platform allows you to learn programming and benefit from your trading.

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TradingView Pine Script Tutorial

TradingView’s Pine Script is a lightweight, easy-to-learn programming language for creating custom trading indicators and strategies directly on TradingView charts. This comprehensive Tradingview Pine Script tutorial provides everything you need to go from Pine Script beginner to expert You’ll start ... Read more

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Log cabin (WIP)

EMOTIONAL JUNK! SKIP IF YOU WANT

So, I've been feeling very discouraged about 3D artwork and my future and myself and all that fun stuff, and I think that I personally just want to lay down in bed and sleep until things just magically change to be better. At the start of the month I was planning on doing a really big animation for the end of the year with a script and whatnot, but I gave up on the second day of the month. I think yesterday or the day before or whatever, I decided I just wanted to make a cute little Christmas-y animation for the end of the month. And so I started working on it.

POSTING THE IMAGES NOW

So I decided that I wanted to make this animation take place in a cute log cabin in the forest.

So as you may have noticed, this doesn't look a lot like a log cabin. You might also be asking what's wrong with that snowman. Well, to explain, what I'm doing here is making a general layout using basic shapes and whatnot so that I can try and figure out exactly what I want. When I've figured out exactly what I want for this, then I'll start making it look actually decent. But while we're here, I might as well give you a little tour.

You aren't allowed to be mad about the lack of things to see, I said I'd give you a LITTLE tour. But wait, this cabin isn't the only thing that I've worked on.

THE TREE

Wouldn't be a forest without trees, right? Well, good news is we have trees. And look at how highly-detailed it is!!! Great tree, right? WRONG. Take a closer look at this tree.

Dear god. How low poly and horrid, right? Well, there is a valid reason for this. Polygons are expensive and we're going to be making a LOT of these trees. I tried following a CG Geek tutorial on easy low poly trees to get the branches right. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of great photos out there on pine tree branches covered in snow. I tried my best, but it just didn't look great.

Yeah, I bet you're appreciating the new tree now. Either that or you wish I kept the old tree in which case um

Point is now what I'm doing is using these little branch things as particles on the bigger branch things. Here's a photo of what the little branches look like by themselves, and what the big branches look like by themselves

The actual poly count of the big branches should be lowered because by themselves they're 33,840 polygons, which is probably not what I want for a low-poly mesh there'll be a lot of, but I'll deal with doing that later. For now, I'm going to rest.

OH WAIT I ALMOST FORGOT

THE SNOW TEXTURE

You might've noticed the snowman and the snowy tree, but there's more. I tried to mimic the way that snow is sparkly, and the way I did that was by throwing a static image I made in Gimp into the roughness slot of the material

This got me a very nice sparkly texture which I think looks close enough to snow (I haven't seen snow up close in like 2 years so cut me some slack). I'll be using this material on all the snow-related things, and I'm hoping it'll work well. I'm going to ramble a bit at the end of the post, so I just wanted to say thank you for reading this mess, and I hope you like the stuff I make.

CONCLUSION (yes I did just now look up Christmas light colors also the emotional junk is back)

I'm going to keep working on this over the next couple days, and hopefully by the end of it I'll have a cute little animation. 2022 has probably been a better year for me than 2021 in terms of good things that have happened to me. A lot of great things have happened this year which I should be happy about, but unfortunately I don't think I've fully been able to take advantage of that because of some personal problems. Joining Twitter probably didn't help that very much, but it led to me joining this site, which I do like a lot so far. I think I'm certainly going to enjoy being on here a lot more than Twitter. Anyways, that's all from me, I'm going to go lay down and be on my phone instead of going to bed like a normal person (bit of a lie, I think a normal person would've gone to bed about 6 hours ago). Bye!

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Ok I was originally not going to post this because it's A Lot of headcanon for an improv video game comedy series and just send it to one person but they never responded and I'm attention starved. So here's my huge, Bubby centric, monster of a headcanon that ties the whole series together. Mostly under a cut because it's A Lot. (written in one sitting on my phone so excuse the multiple changes in tense and typos)

So the big sort of thing is that Bubby caused the resonance cascade. He sabotaged the computers. He just meant for it to be a distraction to escape black mesa but Benry's involvement and the chaotic element of the Player Character interacting with him caused everything to go to hell fast. Also Benry and Bubby are sort of brothers.

Going backwards to explain:

So some of this really stretches the canon because it's mixing a "it's a real world" au and "it's still a video game" au kind of ideas. 

Basically the world of the video game exists sort of as a parallel dimension within the game's code. The G-man exists kind of outside of the rules, able to control more or less the code or console. He's kind of the Mastermind behind black Mesa as a whole who exists outside the game's code to a sort of in between layer (in those time stop moments) where he can only be seen by those who are also in some way connected to the Real World through either direct connection to the Player or sufficient connection to the console code. His reach is in ways limited because of this and he cannot easily interact with the game world characters. He uses Black Mesa as a way to use the science of their word to try to create new things from the code or otherwise more precisely control it.

Which is where Bubby comes in. Basically, black Mesa took the basic code for the security officer Barney and tried to create new copies with connections to the code they could use. However it was pretty much a complete failure. Only two of the attempts even survived to maturity with any kind of personally intact, but they weren't right. Trying to connect them with the code like that broke them in certain ways. On creation, the scientists asked them their names to try to get them to access their own files to find the name, but neither could, it came out garbled. So instead they went by the names they more or less gave themselves. 

Bubby is able to connect to the console commands specifically to set objects and characters on fire(among some others in small amounts that are far less well controlled), but he can't understand that's what it is. It's just psychokinesis to him. And he's not good at controlling it, especially when he was younger. He's also scrawny, has several phobias, and is overall much more suited to academic pursuits than being any kind of soldier for them. It also causes him to glitch at times('here i come, Gordon! Here I come, Gordon! Here I come, Gordon!). His code is more or less like a badly implemented mod that tried to unlock god admin mode but failed and now doesn't quite fit back in with the original code right.

They kept him as a scientist at black Mesa mostly to keep him under surveillance. He knows this. He doesn't know anything about the code or anything, but he knows he was made there etc etc. He spent most of his time just keeping the other scientists afraid of him and his spontaneous combustion and studying as much as he could. He'd never been outside. He wasn't allowed to leave. He'd never really cared to. 

Until (and this was largely inspired by the '30 something Coomer and Bubby when Coomer first joined black Mesa by @inkwellstars) a new scientist was hired. Bubby largely ignored him except for trying to scare him away from any annoying attempts and friendship with some showy (if poorly controlled) pyrotechnics. But Coomer was just fascinated and made a terrible pun about his new coworker being 'a real hothead'. Which infuriated Bubby into taking an interest in him. Coomer remained the only person who was unfazed enough by the fire and the shark teeth to not just still hang around, but even tease him, no matter how hard Bubby tried to intimidate him out of it. Eventually, Bubby realized it was the last thing he actually wanted. That this man was the first person who he'd ever had treat him… Like a human being. And for the first time, he considers a world outside black Mesa. And it's somewhere he wants to go. He wants to follow this man when he walks out the sliding lab doors back to a world he'd never been a part of. 

Not that he's pining or anything!! Coomer was a married man, after all!(no way no sir not that). 

 Bubby has a lot of unmanaged anger because he just catches on fire if he gets too frustrated. After a discussion of Coomer's past boxing ambitions, they set up the underground boxing league mostly just as the two of them, letting Bubby actually let off some steam in a metaphorical instead of literal way. He gets his ass handed to him every time but it's nice to not be treated like either the boss' fragile, expensive toy or a living Molotov cocktail. Bubby learns a bit of fighting along the way,to boot. He gets much better at controlling his fire. Coomer picks him up in a "lift off the ground and spin around" bear hug when he manages to set something aflame without setting any part of himself alight first. Bubby somehow feels that was more important to him than the accomplishment itself. Eventually word gets out about the quite literal underground rings they've started up and it becomes a whole league and Bubby takes a more spectator role, contented to play coach to Coomer.

However, Coomer's impressive strength and fortitude aren't only noticed by an admiring(and sightly love struck) Bubby. Black Mesa decides to try, instead of using code to try to create a new entities with connection to the code, to use an existing character, enhance them, and then create copies of them. Coomer became that existing character.

At first it seemed to work perfectly. They had a character able to alter the world at their will(sending Gordon back and forth through time/creating portals), access a super human, nearly godlike state of power(super player feature) and alter the code in a multitude of other ways. They implemented a system of authorization to stop him from accessing these powers without permission from a handler. These PlayCoins could only be gained and used by someone directly connected to the console code or real world. Someone connected to that liminal space between code and reality the g-man exists in. However, trying to create duplicates didn't create a new, equally powerful entity, it just split the power of the original. From there, Coomer's spirit was still too powerful to be completely controlled, so they split him into dozens of clones, dividing up that power until he was within a range they could control. The effect on his psyche was devastating, however. It trapped him into the code of 'tutorial npc' but his response triggers got completely broken so he responds to the wrong things. Before the scripted events of the game in which those triggers are, it didn't affect his day to day behavior, but it did leave him with an inescapable partial awareness of the game itself. As split as he is, he can't understand or remember anything about what it means, it's just a constant disconnect between him and the game's reality. It causes his marriage to fall apart. 

Bubby doesn't know about what happened to Coomer. A lot of his own memories are controlled and tampered with as well. But he feels as though his getting close to Coomer caused his suffering and they end up drifting apart for a long time and Bubby's longing to see the world outside his laboratory home fades alongside their once strong bond.

Until. The other failed test tube character made from the mangled and stripped code of the security officer Barney who was torn out of the code to be twisted to the g man's whims comes to Bubby with an idea. The man who is not a man. Who has no parents and named himself : Benry.

Benry seemed like he should have been perfect. He kept the most physical resemblance to the original Barney, he seemed physically stable. As far as anyone could tell, he was completely connected to the console code. He should be able to control whatever he wanted, but besides the sweet voice and an unnatural fortitude, he seemed to have no remarkable qualities. Also he was all but totally incoherent. Memory, temporal and spacial awareness,and speech function were severely impaired. He often forgot where and when he was('... What happened to your arm?'), got his own memories confused with the memories of the now non-existent Barney ('you and me we used to be friends do you remember i don't know what happened'). Along with an erratic and unpredictable personality. He was considered another of countless failures and given a menial security job, like with Bubby, mostly just to keep an eye on him. Benry and Bubby, despite being practically siblings, aren't close, but do trust each other insomuch as they know the other probably won't outright kill them. 

But Benry was not as unremarkable as he seemed.

And the introduction of a new element would throw everything into chaos: The Player. And, by extension, The Game.

The Player, in this instance, refers to the assumed person who is playing the game in which the characters exist. They are a discrete, unseen, and unmentioned character, who is neither Wayne nor Gordon Freeman. Wayne is the actor playing both Gordon and, in ways The Player, in the same way that Holly is playing the character of Coomer. Gordon is the AI character who exists within the game world. He believes he is in control of his actions and that what he experiences is real. He exists on the same layer of fiction as the other AI such as the character of Coomer.  The Player is whomever, within the fiction of the series, is physically playing The Game.

The Game is the actual scripted, programmed events that were programmed in the "real world" (the Player's real world in which they live and are playing the Game). It represents the events that happen from the time the Player begins the game and when they complete it. The Game represents the overlap between the reality in which the AI exist and The Player's world. Presumably a copy of the original game Half Life. 

As the events of The Game draw nearer, it makes every charterer with a connection to the code antsy. Bubby starts thinking, for the first time in years, about the world outside black Mesa's walls. Thought becomes longing. Longing becomes desperation. A need to escape from here by any means necessary.

Benry approaches him with an idea. They'll sabotage the big test that Dr.Freeman is running. The whole thing will likely explode, causing enough destruction and distraction for them to slip away in the chaos (with Coomer in tow if Bubby could help it). Freeman would almost certainly die but that was a necessary casualty for their freedom. Bubby never liked him anyway. There was just something...off about him. Like a weird double vision he couldn't shake around the man. Like something was both there that shouldn't be and missing that should be. Bubby avoided him. He didn't think he'd ever had a single conversation with him. He agrees.

Benry stops Gordon at the entrance and tries to stall him as long as possible with bogus requests to give Bubby as much time to sabotage the test as possible (which he does by crawling inside the computers, claiming he's fixing a problem). 

However,Gordon is not connected to the console code, but directly to the real world through being controlled by The Player. As the Player triggers the scripted events of The Game, the holes and mangled code the g man and black Mesa have been tampering with start going haywire. Especially as Benry interacts with him directly. His latent connection to the console code starts activating, giving him ability to control himself and the game more and more, but his memory issues and temporal confusion makes him unable to determine what is and isn't real so his code powers start just making it real, beginning to actively break the Game from within. The bogus excuse about a passport (he forgot the word for ID and had to roll with the lie) became a reality and a powerful one. He starts teleporting and clipping through the walls.

Bubby starts the test, unaware of the change. He played along with the passport thing to not blow Benry's story. But by the time he reaches the chamber, it's already a real thing everyone else there had and should have. 

When the cascade starts, though, Bubby is caught off guard. It was just supposed to explode. It wasn't supposed to bridge dimensions and cause this rift. He assumes Gordon did something to cause it to fail so catastrophically. He phases through the window of the observation room (something he didn't even know he could do and likely didn't even realize he was doing and forgot afterwards since he was immediately knocked out) but it's too late to stop it.

Then the events of the Game are in full swing and all the broken code of every character crumbles and results in the "look Gordon! Ropes!" Glitched tutorial Coomer, a Bubby whose setting himself on fire on accident for the first time in years, and a Benry who transcends beyond the confines of his code into an extradimemsional Chimera of sorts who can pass in and out of the liminal G space, become and summon skeleton minions who also can be or not be in that space, able to be seen by anyone or just by someone able to perceive that plane of existence, such as Gordon.

As Coomer destroys his clones, he gets pieces of his power and fragments of memory back. Enough to know that they are clones and that killing them returns his powers to him. Bubby and he quickly rekindle their bond, with the memory tapering being undone.

Bubby is still desperate to leave, trying to get Gordon to go faster by guilting him and saying he wants to go home (though black Mesa is his actual home). However everything just seems to get more and more drawn out and they can never really make progress.

Benry convinces Bubby that Gordon is the reason that they can't leave. Bubby can sense that something is different about Gordon so he believes it. Benry may or may not believe it himself. He may have realized that leading the Player to the end would only end the Game and tried to subvert that path. Or the programmed event of Gordon's ambush might have just pushed them both to it. Impossible to say. 

In any case, Bubby is quickly also detained and put back in his tube.

With enough clones killed, and having accidentally jumped out of the play box and seen that there's nothing physically beyond black Mesa, Coomer becomes aware of and connected to the console code and aware of the "real world". He tries to use Gordon's connection to the Player to get to the real world, though at this point he can only understand it as the world of Gordon's "dreams". When Tommy kills all of the clones, then knocks out Coomer, it causes a full reset and Coomer becomes his full,unshattered self again. He still is limited by his need for authorization through PlayCoins, but he's much more coherent and quickly becomes completely aware of his situation within the Game and starts talking directly to the Player through Gordon at times. 

The rest is history. 

As for some other non directly related things: Tommy is g man's attempt at a more biological connection between the code and the game universe. Tommy is his son and has all the abilities of a g-man but is largely unable to use them and unaware of them due to his young age (comparatively to the immortal g man, 36 is still a child) and his innocence. He is also completely integrated with the game universe with no glitches from the union. Tommy is not aware he's the Gman's son. He thinks it's just some guy who bought him Vin Diesel and the minions. Tommy tends to use his powers entirely accidentally when he does, with the exception of creating Sunkist. In doing so he also surpassed his father's ultimate limit: creating a completely new element to the game without having to gut other code. He created the perfect dog out of completely new content he willed into existence. Unfortunately for G-Man, Tommy is far too pure and goodhearted to be used to any nefarious ends. 

[thelazyeye]

oh okay, internet famous Losers, like they're all youtubers and insta famous kids doing really different stuff around the nation, what do each of them do? who connects with who and how?

Ooff I love this idea. I used to be moderately into youtube people. Mamrie Hart anyone? She cracks me the fuck UP. Anyway this got super long so its under the cut. I hope you enjoy anon! Thanks for sending something it!!

Okay. Here we go. 

Richie 

is a youtube personality. Duh. He started out vlogging and his Voices and somehow his channel picked up. He writes comedy bits, does personal blogging, and tests his voices. 

When he was starting out he had a bit where he was a weatherman that had multiple personalities (Voices) and it got insanely popular. He received some backlash due to the offensiveness of the bit and has since retired it, but references it from time to time to credit his fame. 

Now he focuses a lot on his comedy routines and improv acting with other members of the community. He does challenges from time to time as collabs as well

People are super invested in his personal life (bc people seriously get like that with youtube people) and started speculating about his sexuality. It took him a few years to address all the rumors that he wasn’t straight and how he was probably dating this youtuber or that youtuber. 

Eddie 

is an LGBT Activist that has a youtube channel as well (think Laci Green but LGBT and not sex ed, though he does do sex ed work)

He got his start when he was in college. He became the president of the LGBT club. He wanted to reach a large number of students and he figured the best way to do that would be youtube

The entire club helped him out. Every week he would have another club member on the channel to talk about their sexuality and experiences

It didn’t get big at the school but he got lowkey noticed by the HRC after about 6 or 7 videos. He was contacted by a social media manager on the team to commend him on his work

From then on out he started to work harder on his videos, including more in depth information and he included links to more resources

Eventually, his videos started to rack up views from young LGBT kids thanking him for his channel

He started to collab with famous LGBT youtubers (troye sivan, hannah hart) and that’s when he really blew up 

Bill 

actually got his start on Vine. He mastered the art of the 6 second story and when the platform went down he migrated to youtube, snapchat, and twitter. He’s got profiles on almost every social media platform and he’s written a couple of webseries, as well. 

His first webseries (pre-vine) focused on comedy. He and some college friends got together and wrote the script/acted it out. It wasn’t very big but the following for it had a cultish feel. 

It blew up after he became famous on vine

After that, he started writing more webseries and partnering with other youtube actors

He wrote and completed two successful comedy webseries before he got bored of it. He decided to make the jump to horror work 

Think Marble Hornets

He ended up getting a scholarship to a film school and has been working on becoming a movie director ever since

His youtube work is on a hiatus but he still posts blogs and updates of his life. He’s active on Snapchat and Twitter the most. He still does dumb, funny shit from time to time and tweets out very random jokes

Stan 

is an adventure youtuber. He travels all over the world, seeking thrills and exploring nature. His videos usually have some kind of educational component but they’re always entertaining. Stan has explored the Savanah and Rain Forrests, he’s sky dived and scuba dived. He’s done a lot

He has a side channel for his love of birds because how can I not throw this in here?

When Anti semites started showing back up in the world Stan started to dedicate more of his channel, and his other platforms, to Judaism. He’s uses his popularity and fame to educate people and create awareness around the issues Jews face

As a result, he blogged his Birthright to Israel. It was a weeks worth of videos, some candids that he just uploaded on the whim, and some he took the time to edit. They were adventurous, educational, and full of his personal journey

Stan has also faced a lot of backlash for his involvement with the jewish community. He voices this in his videos. To combat the threats against him, he recruits other members of the youtube community to collab with and talk about issues. He makes it fun. He’s cooked Jewish foods, celebrated Jewish holidays, and had fun discussions with other personalities. 

Bev 

is a famous fashion designer and makeup artist. She got her start on Instagram, posting her designs and outfits that she created. Sh started young. Like 15 years old. As she grew up and went to school, her fashion instagram grew. People got to see her skills improve and they watched as she turned into a teenager designing clothes in her bedroom to a design student to a professional

She gives fashion tips to people and her favorite hobby is making posts that help girls and boys create fun, new, and exciting clothes out of what they already have in their closet

She firmly believes that you don’t need to have money and status to dress well. She wants fashion to be accessible. 

She started a youtube channel out of request from her followers. She got a lot of comments about her makeup and she started to do makeup tutorials there (Think Sailor J)

People really started to see how funny she was, then. She would always throw little bullshit videos onto her story but this was the first time she posted video content that didn’t disappear after 24h

Her youtube is not nearly as active as her instagram. That’s where you can find all of her content

She is also a vocal activist against child abuse on her insta. She frequently donates to various organizations and she does it very publicly. She runs clothing drives for those in need and has even hosted makeover days for young girls whose families can’t afford good clothes/makeup. 

She has recently expanded her fashion designs to male clothing, promoting Non Binary, Trans, and other identities in her lines. She says “Clothing has no gender” and pushes that despite advice to lay low on the issue. 

Mike

is a super unlikely case of internet fame. His instagram is composed almost entirely of his farm animals. He really didn’t think he was going to get famous from it. He just loves his farm so fucking much

The first half of his internet fame just consisted of pictures and videos of his animals. Namely, his dog Mr. Chips and his cow, Barely. They were best friends and Mike posted pictures of them napping together, playing together, and helping him run the farm

Once he started to gain an unreasonable about of followers he would pepper in posts that were educational. He talked about the importance of farmers, the work that he does, and how he maintains his animals. He worked to debunk a lot of myths about farming and really promote the work that he does. 

He still posts a lot of videos of him with his animals being all cute, but he uses his activism to reach large numbers of people at a single time. 

He also promotes healthy eating on his instagram. He talks about balanced diets and how to moderate sweets intake. 

Eventually he talks about working out (because Mike Hanlon is ripped sorry I don’t make the rules) and helps build an all around healthy lifestyle for his following. He kind of accidentally becomes a life coach of sorts. Motivation, healthy living, and cute animals. 

He has no idea how it happened but he doesn’t regret a single minute of it

Ben

is a singer! This sweet old mother fucker started out on youtube when he was 16. He bought a Ukulele and started writing love songs for the girl he was pining after

We all know that one mother fucker who owed a Ukulele in high school

His voice was like velvet, though. He wasn’t popular enough for anyone to really see it so he didn’t get teased in high school for it. His first couple videos got only a handful of views

What kick started his fame is a cover video. When he decided he wanted to do an acoustic cover of Lady Gaga’s Love Game

He did it on Ukulele

It ended up being such a fun and unique cover of such a popular song that he got noticed. Like. The video fucking blew up. He ended up getting over 5 thousand views overnight and the number just kept growing

Ben ran with it. He covered other popular songs (I Kissed a Girl, Viva La Vida, So What, etc) 

He blew up so hard and fast that people started to notice his original works

He got noticed by a label and signed the summer after he graduated high school

His first album was a love album because it’s Ben come on

He doesn’t have much of a social media presence after his youtube channel. He has the mandatory instagram and twitter that all famous people seem to have but they’re fairly inactive

Collabs

Richie and Bill

Richie and Bill were the first to collab with each other. Richie acted in Bill’s first webseries and it built a friendship that lasts a lifetime. 

The two of them do stupid youtube challenges with each other whenever they’re in the same city

Bill used to guest on Richie’s channels and play improv games to help both of them work on their comedy. They always turn out ridiculously funny and normally involve some level of alcohol

When Bill lost his younger brother in a car accident (sorry georgie dies in like every single universe) Richie flew out to see Bill and spend time with him. The two of them filmed a vlog together where they talked about the loss and then they both donated to anti drunk driving campaigns and urged their followers to do the same and never drive drunk

Richie and Eddie

They met for the first time at vidcon when they were first starting out. Richie was already pretty big but Eddie was working on his following. They hit it off immediately and they filmed a video for Eddie’s channel that focused on Eddie debunking stereotypes surrounding the LGBT community. Richie added a tasteful comedic flair that brought in views and he taught Eddie that things don’t always need to be serious 100% of the time

They kept in loose contact after that, always meeting up at vidcon and filming a ridiculous video for Eddie’s channel

2 years later, Richie reached out to Eddie and asked him to film a video for Richie’s channel

He wouldn’t tell Eddie what it was until they were in front of the camera, but Eddie readily agreed. He loved working with Richie. He thought he was fun and witty

When they got in front of the camera Richie revealed that he was bisexual and that Eddie’s videos helped him learn about bisexuality and come to terms with it

They spent the video talking about Richie’s journey to self acceptance, why he decided to come out, and Eddie’s knowledge surrounding sexual identity development. The video ended up being 15 minutes long and had the highest comment numbers Richie had ever seen. Not every comment was positive, but he took the experience in stride and started doing little bits of advocacy here and there for his and other channels 

Richie and Eddie end up dating, but not for a long, long time after that video when they’re both living in LA and well established in their youtube careers. 

Bev and Mike

An unlikely combo for an unlikely youtube star! Bev and Mike do a collab that focuses on self esteem and loving yourself!

Mike gives health tips and Bev gives fashion advice, but both of them talk about the importance of self worth and how external image means nothing if you don’t love yourself first. They both talk about their own journeys. 

The collab starts because Bev finds out about Mike through insta and she ends up contacting him about wool. They partner up business wise and Mike helps provide wool for her fashion line while Bev promotes his farm work. 

They don’t do many intentional collabs after they one, but they do show up on each others stories and in pictures together very frequently. The two become best friends

Ben and Bev

They don’t collab. But they do get married. 

They meet through the fame and bustle of L.A. Ben’s music career makes him end up at the same Gala as Bev, where they’re introduced to each other. They hit it off immediately, connecting with their childhoods and such. 

They date for 3 years before Ben proposes via Flash Mob and song written just for Bev

Bev loves the song so much she insists Ben release it. It becomes a Billboard hit

Eddie and Stan

Stan finds himself in NYC where Eddie lives and he reaches out to do an educational collab on LGBT politics in the Jewish community. 

He takes Eddie rock climbing and the two film the video with go pros. 

Eddie is terrified at first and it makes for a funny introduction but he eventually gets his bearings and the two of them scale a cliff together, talking about issues and getting to know each other. 

Stan and Richie

Eddie introduces them after the Coming Out Video. 

They collab as frequently as they can

They do ridiculous shit and Stan films Richie’s commentary. Its hilarious

They have a natural chemistry and they feed off of each other. Stan didn’t know he was a funny guy until he met Richie. Then it just kind of came out of the woodwork. Richie really highlighted Stan’s eccentric sense of humor. 

Everyone

Richie and Bev are childhood best friends

Eventually, they all end up meeting. They don’t really film videos with each other. Sometimes there’s a vlog that includes more than two of them but very rarely are they all in the same video at the same time. 

It happened intentionally once. It was chaos. Everyone was drunk. The video had to be edited so severely that it was only 1 minute and 30 seconds

They do however show up in snapchats, insta stories, and pictures as a group. By the time they’re all 30 they’re very, very good friends

[cracked-spines-smudged-words]

A Thousand Secret Things

Author’s note: This is an excerpt from an unfinished novel.

She couldn’t say for certain whether the change would do her good, but there was something inside herself that needed to fly. The winter that year was stifling, a heavy, obscuring whiteness that lay over everything like some lethargic blanket, covering her hope for some renewal, like the bright green shoots of spring.

Her steps were slow and her breath steamed, and she day dreamed about the yellow feeling of the sun against the back of her neck, warm and tingly and good. She thought about the feel of sweat, and the smell of heat in the cypress trees she’d never met, and in her mind, they smelled like wet pines. When she thought of it, she was happy.

When she slept at night, she dreamt of swamps and Spanish moss and she would wake up with sweat between her breasts and on the inside of her neck, like she was feverish with it. If she’d had wings, she’d have taken off in the night, like a sleepwalker searching for home.

Nine to five and invisible, she took public transportation, and went about the space of her days in small, solitary movements. Her friends were elsewhere, blossoming into the lives they’d created, concerned with their becomings and journeying towards something like adulthood, whilst she bided her time writing tutorials and user-guides for software, instead of poetry and novels.

She tended to drink alone and read by herself, and when the spirit moved her, she would write, and glean some sort of peace from the act, some serenity in the click-click of the keys and the spinning of a world from her fingertips. Most of the time, she imagined humid air that caught in her throat, black bayou water, and a thousand secret things she didn’t know about, down there in Louisiana, where she went in her dreams.

If you asked her why Louisiana, why Lafayette, she wouldn’t be able to tell you. She had no history there, no connection to it, just a vague sympathy for the deep dark richness and mystery that the south presented in novels and the blues songs she liked. Something like authenticity, and the noble rot of age and tragedy that gothicized and eroticized everything, exposing fragile natures, and revealing magic things. Voodoo was part of it, something about magic seemed rooted there in her imagination. Romance, too. All of it together was an elixir she had not yet drunk from – something heady and satisfying, and at the moment, out of reach. It was dark red wine, when all that was served was cheap beer and rye and coke.

The night outstripped the day. The hours spent outside, between work and waking, happened all in cold, with nothing but the slivered moon for familiarity. When one long moment, everything seemed unbearably strange – the grey-brown cubicle with it’s requisite fifteen pieces of flash, the scripted conversation that clunked out of her mouth into place as she typed words in a strange language that meant nothing – when a heat settled on her forehead, flushing her cheeks and spreading like honey, thick and slow across her shoulders, delirious and sweet, there was nothing to be done. Two weeks later, she’d sold or stored the entire contents of her apartment – hand-me-down couches and second-hand store lamps, a desk salvaged from the dump, and touched down in Louisana Swamp land with nothing to her name except two suitcases and a box of books.

[procreate-brushes]

How to use the Procreate RossBob Wet Oil Paint Brushes (I)

The RossBob Wet Oil Paint Brush Set is available as a stand-alone set and free MegaPack update. It contains more than 30 new wet paint brushes for Bob Ross style oil painting in Procreate 4. I also included my new ROSSBOB color swatches to get you started painting right away! 

For beginners, I recommend watching and following one of the numerous Bob Ross videos on YouTube & Co. There are also many good tutorial videos for iPad/Procreate, some of them are quite funny too: 

General Tips

Try out the brushes with different pen pressure, tilt, and stroke speed to get a feeling for their stroke details and dynamics.

Use the brushes in “Wet Paint” mode for smooth, blurred and distant elements. Use “Normal” or “Glaze” mode to add bigger, crisper and more detailed elements to the foreground. 

(You can switch between the 3 brush rendering modes using the respective buttons in the “Dynamics” tab of your brush menu.)

Use separate layer groups for the foreground, middle ground, and background.

Think and paint in layers: Build up your colors, structures, and forms step by step, working from dark to light colors.

Paint shadows and highlights on separate layers and try different blending modes:

Highlights: Brighten or Negative Multiply

Shadows: Multiply, Darken or Color Burn

The names of the RossBob brushes only represent their primary function (like painting grass, leaves, water, bark etc.). Feel free to experiment with them, combine different patterns for a natural look, and spot “happy accidents” to elaborate details you find interesting.

Use layer masks to hide areas and work on selected areas while keeping the underlying layers intact (non-destructive painting).

Merge layers when you reach the maximum number of layers for your canvas size.

Make copies of your artwork. If you mess up a certain area, you can always go back and copy details from the previous versions.

The RossBob Brushes

One of the main brushes of the RossBob Set is the PAINT KNIFE. It is a very versatile paint, wet mix, and texture brush, which produces lots of “happy accidents” that can be used as natural structures for your scene.  

Use the PAINT KNIFE to paint some basic forms and define areas like the sky, mountains, hills, water etc.:

Use the VEGETATION, SPIKEY, HAPPY SHRUB, BRUEGEL, and HAPPY BUSHES brushes to paint vegetation, bushes, shrubs etc. Mix the different brushes to add variations and create an organic look.

The BRUEGEL brush is one of the main texture and pattern brushes: a versatile allrounder for brushes, leaves, and vegetation. Use different color shades to define lights and shadows of your scene.

The RAGGED brush is great for natural surfaces like grasslands, embankments, rivers, paths etc.

Use the RIPPLES brush to add highlights, shadows, and accents for bumpy, rough, and wavy surfaces.

Use the GRASS brushes and the HAPPY FLOWERS to add details to the foreground:

Here are some demo strokes with the other leaves, grass, and tree brushes:

The FAN BRUSH is great to paint details like pine trees, vegetation, grass on distant hills etc:

A quick concept demo for painting pine trees with the RossBob FAN BRUSH ("Wet Paint" brush mode):

The WATER CLOUDS brush can be used for clouds as well as water surfaces (transform to match perspective):

The SCRIPT LINER is great for adding details, accents, highlights, and linework:

The ROUND BRUSH is a textured multi-purpose tool for all kinds of painting techniques:  

Here are some demo strokes in “Wet Paint” mode with some of the classic paint brushes:

Use the ROSSBOB MIXER and TEXTURE BLENDER brushes to blend colors or create rough edges. Use low opacity for soft blending and wet color mixing.

Import the RossBob COLOR SWATCHES included in this set if you want to use the classic palette of the great Bob Ross.

Happy Painting! :) –Georg

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[tinycartridge]

Yakuza Kiwami’s Majima Everywhere is everything ⊟

Yakuza Kiwami is a remake of the original 2005 Yakuza game, built from Yakuza 0′s engine and many of its assets. But despite containing largely, let’s say legacy content, Kiwami innovates in one weird, wonderful way: Majima Everywhere.

This new system adds challenge and surprise to the random battles, encourages exploration of every corner of Kamurocho... and just completely wrecks the tone of the game, in the most entertaining way.

Majima Everywhere is set up in a new addition to Majima’s intro scene, during which Goro Majima, having just beaten up one of his underlings for disrespecting Kiryu (said disrespect already earning the poor guy the honor of embodying the combat tutorial), pines for a fight with Kiryu. Kiryu says he won’t fight without a reason, so Majima giddily announces that he’ll bug Kiryu constantly to manufacture reasons for fighting. There’s something in there about helping Kiryu regain his fighting ability after ten years in prison, as well. Whatever. It’s reasoning just strong enough for the game to justify itself.

Sometimes Majima is just walking around Kamurocho waiting to fight you on sight. Sometimes he’s even hiding around town waiting to be discovered. But it goes deeper. Majima also shows up in special scripted segments when you’re doing mundane things around town, like browsing magazines -- tying whatever activity you’re engaging in to some tortured excuse for a brawl. 

Not all Majima encounters are even fights. Part of any Yakuza game is blowing off the story to go play minigames in town, and Kiwami rewards such shirking with surprise Majima! I won’t describe these at all -- they’re a lot funnier as surprises. In fact, the difficulty of Majima Everywhere in general is trying to describe it without spoiling any appearances. I’ve been agonizing over this for a couple of weeks. I’m driven at all times by a desire to talk about Majima Everywhere, but doing so diminishes it.

Fighting Majima builds a “Majima Everywhere” meter representing your relationship with him; as you level up, you gain new abilities in a fighting style that can only be unlocked through Majima; you also unlock special blowout Majima sequences that are basically better than anything else in the game. Beyond that, you get a ton of regular experience for building up your character.

Taken as a whole, Kiwami is the least of the recent Yakuzas. It lacks the unbelievable variety of 5 and the intense character building of 0 -- though, being a Yakuza game, that means it merely offers a ton of variety and a thrillingly dramatic story.

The 2005 source material had yet to hit the outrageous twists and turns I’d come to expect from Yakuza, nor the reality-defying weirdness of the later substories. Most of the sidequests in this one boil down to “it’s a scam.” But Majima Everywhere forcefully grafts latter-day surrealism into this first game, with an antagonist who is basically a cartoon character. It totally destroys the tone of the original game, and it makes Majima’s canon appearances a lot less menacing, but making the melodramatic and the absurd occupy the same space is what Yakuza is all about now, and the series is better for it. 

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The Myth and Meaning of MissingNo

A few notes about this essay: first, I have removed the period from the name “MissingNo.” for ease of transcription. I also refer to MissingNo’s sibling as Bar ‘M Bar or [][][][] ‘M [][][][] because its real name is irreproducible in Unicode:

Also, for the purposes of this essay it is helpful to think of Pokémon less as animals and more as a gamut of spectral entities: yokai, devas, fairies, sprites, genies, elemental intelligences, ghosts, servitors, unincorporated astral matter, etc. All those strange and elusive beings who populate world mythology and the collective imagination. In contrast to our world, however, people in Kanto are universally aware of these entities and their relation to ourselves. Much more can be said on this subject, but allow the basic premise to inform your reading when it feels appropriate. The subject before us is liminal by its nature.

Myths, Stories, and Suspicions

When we encounter a glitch in a game the temptation is to say that it broke our immersion. Maybe it’s because children are more easily entranced, but as a child my experience with MissingNo did not feel particularly incongruous with the narrative. The encounter, though strange, didn’t contradict the world of the game -- it expanded it in a psychedelic direction. When I met MissingNo, the battle played out more or less as normal. It was only the image of the creature, the arcane initiation, and the haunting after-effects that were atypical.

As soon as Pokémon Red & Blue came out, one fact of life became very clear: Kids love to spread tall tales about Pokémon. It was quite common to hear about Mew hiding under a truck or Togepi skulking around in the inaccessible wilderness behind Bill’s house. But the purported apparition of something called “MissingNo” or “Bar ‘M Bar” held an especially uncanny sway, because everyone believed it to be true. The basic story was that you talk to an old man, and then fly to an island where you meet bizarre and game-glitching Pokémon – but the many accounts which peppered the playground and Internet each held idiosyncratic details. Some said Mewtwo would turn up on the island, others said they found Pokémon native to the Safari Zone, or rogue trainers, or that you could multiply your items by 100. When I finally initiated what came to be known as the “Old Man Glitch”, I performed it in the prescribed manner:

Talk to the Old Man in the North of Viridian City. He will show you how to catch a Weedle.

As soon as the Old Man is finished, fly to Cinnabar Island.

On the island, walk over to the eastern edge and use Surf.

Surf the very edge of the water, moving up and down.

And sure enough, there appeared a fuzzy Tetris-looking rando named [][][][] ‘M [][][][]. Armed with a little background research, I succeeded in slaying this entity, and came away with 128 rare candies, a glitched out Hall of Fame record, and a whole lot of questions. The experience was so simple and tidy, and the performance of the glitch was just dreamlike enough that my young mind felt the thin silver light of meaning shining dimly from behind the supposedly arbitrary method of contact.

MissingNo and its glitch siblings became well known in the Pokémon community as reliable and functional game exploits, and stuck in the imagination for the peculiarity of their presentation. The programming quirks behind MissingNo’s operations are well understood, and the character has wormed its way into a sizable number of fan theories and creepypastas. Something about this strange little block of static resonates with players, and it seems to have surrounded itself with cryptic clues as to its true nature.

The Method of Contact

The first step to understanding a mysterious aberration in a game is to consider the events that lead up to it. What must the player do in order to find MissingNo? The trip begins by talking to an old man in Viridian City who shows the player how to catch Pokémon by snagging a wild Weedle in a brief scripted encounter. This is an interesting motif right off the bat, because we are meeting a teacher figure who shows us how to catch the worm. In dreams and in myth, the worm is often a symbolic representation of the Kundalini serpent, the principal driving force of life itself which coils at the base of the spine. The Old Man is found near the beginning of the game, and he will show you this tutorial as many times as you like. After all, he is teaching an essential lesson: catch the Pokémon around you to expand your team; or more abstractly: integrate the aspects of nature which complete you.

Viridian city itself is a special place, in that we begin and end our Pokémon journey there. It is the first town we come to after leaving home, and it is also host to the final gym and provides a road to the Pokémon League – the culmination of a trainer’s journey. The next step to MissingNo is to fly to volcanic Cinnabar Island, which is incidentally the last town a trainer discovers. So we have leapt from the site of our first lesson to the final city. Here on Cinnabar we walk straight east to the beach, and use surf to ride a Pokemon up and down the edge of the water. If we venture further out to sea, the ritual is forfeit and we must restart. So we glide up and down and up. Here along the crashing waves, apparitions greet us according to our name. The letters in the player’s name are the values that determine which Pokémon appear – and what form MissingNo takes. With this, contact is made. So let’s take a look at this setting. The island is a classic symbol of self-conception: a crystallization of identity emergent from the undifferentiated ocean. There happens to be a volcano on this island, which is also a timeless symbol: that of the eruption of unconscious content; hidden energy and power which has formerly lain dormant and unknown. We encounter MissingNo in a rather narrow area: a single column of tiles representing the edge of an island. We move up and down this coast attempting to trigger the event, swimming/surfing/pacing along the seashore. This is an incredibly profound detail, because the shore of the ocean signifies the mediation between the mundane terrestrial (the land) and the vast realm of the unconscious (the ocean).  The fact that it is the Eastern coast is a bonus, as that is the place where the sun rises in its most prolonged glow, and gives birth to the new day. The island itself is named Cinnabar, home to a research facility that serves a major role in the game’s plot. As we discover through research notes littered about, Cinnabar Mansion was the site of a series of experiments to re-create Mew, which is thought to be a primordial Pokémon. Famously, this resulted in the creation of Mewtwo, an anthropomorphic “clone” of Mew who lacks the originator’s genetic purity (Mewtwo cannot learn any TM, as Mew can), but appears to have gained a humanlike awareness, a trait lengthily elaborated in the first Pokémon movie. Mew as Prima Materia

So what does Mew symbolize? It is known to resemble an embryo, and believed to be the ancestor of all other Pokémon. It is a light pink, which is interesting given that the alchemical prima materia – the formless substance that composes the primeval material of the universe – is said to be dually white and red. In the original games it is only attainable through the metatextual experience of an IRL promotional event, and was allegedly inserted into the game secretly. Mew is clearly meant to be a transcendent being, notoriously elusive and often depicted in space.

Mew is the only pokemon that learns Transform, except of course for Ditto. This has spawned a highly popular fan theory that Dittos are failed clones of Mew. There are some supporting reasons for this idea: they share the same coloration (in both common and shiny iterations), the same weight, the same stats, and Ditto is present at locations relevant to Mew’s story (notably the Pokémon Mansion and the Cerulean Cave, where Mewtwo is found). Unlike Mew, which cannot breed in game, Ditto can successfully mate with any non-Legendary Pokémon. But Mew, critically, is a psychic type. Ditto is “normal.” It is as though the scientists succeeded in recreating the prima materia, but only in a purely physicalist sense. Ditto contains the genetic potential of all current life, but it does not generate new forms. It does not even learn new moves by itself, it must be taught. Science has apparently replicated the form and fertility of immemorial cosmic life, but not its potentiating vitality, its breath of life, its pneuma. I wonder where that pneuma went. Mewtwo, though not having begat novel lifeforms of its own, nevertheless expresses the pneuma in its thoughts and deeds. But maybe pneuma, as a formless concept, could only be expressed allegorically to the player as the enigmatic and varying being known as MissingNo. Revealingly, MissingNo is a Bird/Normal type Pokémon, birds being classical symbols of the spirit. Its cry upon encounter is the default “blank cry”: an unaffected cry of the male Nidoran (the only gendered Pokémon in the original release). But when MissingNo is viewed in the Pokédex, it makes the sound of a Rhydon, the first Pokémon ever designed; we could interpret this therefore as a reference to the voice of creative impulse. There is a caveat to discovering this: the player can only view the Pokedex entry if they have not seen a Cubone. This is another mythic peculiarity, as Cubone’s defining characteristic is its knowledge of loneliness, and its desire for reconciliation with its ancestors. If this sense of separation has never been known, only then can we “read” Missingno’s information, understand its primal utterance, and order it in our Pokédex-pantheon (as #000)

Curiously, Cubone is also host to a popular fan theory: that its missing mother is Kangaskhan. This is believed mainly because Cubone always pines for its perpetually absent mother, and Kangaskhans bear their young in their pouch, but the young are never seen independently. It is therefore supposed that when Kangaskhans die, their young don the skulls of their mothers and become Cubone. I have no strong opinion about this story, but MissingNo closes the circuit thematically. Just as MissingNo has ties to Cubone, its sibling Bar ‘M Bar mysteriously evolves into Kanghaskhan. Additionally, one of the appearances MissingNo can take is the “Ghost” sprite. In the main game, this sprite is only used for the ghost of Cubone’s mother in a unique encounter. Until a special item is used, this ghost isn’t affected by the player; with this guise MissingNo tells us it cannot be grasped.

4 Visions of MissingNo

In addition to the L-shaped white noise and the ghost, MissingNo can appear in two more ways. It can take the form of the fossils glimpsed in the Pewter Museum: a skeleton of Kabutops or a skeleton of Aerodactyl. These constellations of bones further suggest that MissingNo is an ancestral spirit. Kabutops is a water dwelling primordial life-form, whose development name meant “Atlantis,” and who symbolizes the origin of physical life from the first primal waters. Aerodactyl resembles a dragon or wyvern, an intermediary of heaven and earth. These two beasts, like the ghost, are no longer embodied. Though all 3 are potential symbols of the dead, they embody that sentiment differently. Kabutops comes from the water, Aerodactyl from the sky, and the ghost, as a veiled Marowak, would be terrestrial, but its image taken independently refers to the realm of the etheric.

To see these alternative forms, the player must have a certain letter in the 5th, 7th, or 9th slot of their character name: W for Kabutops, X for Aerodactyl, and Y for the ghost. The natural form of MissingNo gives us 4 forms, an apparently timeless property of visionary and mystic experience, from Ezekiel to mandala art and the platonic elements. In fact, there are over 150 such amplifications found in Carl Jung’s General Index, so it’s rather difficult to catch them all. Like many mythological quaternaries, 1 among the 4 is qualitatively exceptional. In this case, of course, that is the so-called “Normal” form, the fuzzy L-block which appears as a result of a much greater variety of player names. Though this natural form is less definite in criteria and appearance, it is actually more definite in its character. The other three forms take their base stats and moves from the last Pokémon in the party (a dittolike effect!); and their sprites, when viewed from the back, are taken from whichever Pokémon’s data was most recently accessed. So when these entities are in use by the player, they resemble something else entirely; they are phenomenologically reordered to resemble a known quantity. The natural form however, has a constant square-shaped sprite when viewed from the back. Though this form is exceptional among the 4, it is reductive to say that this is its “true” image: each of the 4 is a different capitulation of the same idea which itself is formless. Though there is one more peculiarity about the natural form! MissingNo. and Its Twin MissingNo’s natural form is identical with Bar ‘M Bar, as is its Pokédex number, leading many to believe that they were the same creature. However, there are many differences between them. Their height, weight, and stats are different, and they learn slightly different moves. Bar ‘M Bar does not cry like a male Nidoran, but instead sings a pitched-up version of the Zapdos call. This sound resembles birdsong with a background buzz indicating electricity. This pitch-shifted voice tells us that Bar M’ Bar resides even higher in the heavens than the sky-streaking legendary bird of thunder. Its “height” is also coincidentally tied in value with that of Rayquaza, a sacred serpent whose name means “firmament” and is the canonical lord of the skies. Another difference previously mentioned is Bar ‘M Bar’s unique ability to evolve into Kangaskhan. This happens at level 0, but if you glitch it to level 128, it can also evolve into Clefairy. Clefairy is a symbolically rich Pokémon as well; it was the main character of the original manga, and originally slated to be the main character of the anime. It is strongly indicated to be of extraterrestrial origin and is also plainly representative of the fairy kingdom, as indicated by its name and type. Additionally, it happens to be the Pokémon that Bill, a famous internet architect, accidentally transforms into as he is playing with time and space in order to construct a teleporter. We therefore can surmise that Clefairy relates to that which is alien: the alienation of the creature from the franchise, the alien origin of the species within the narrative, and the truly alien experience of inhabiting another body. This changing of bodies is perhaps what Bar ‘M Bar does when pushed past the realm of possibility, into level 128. There is of course a practical programming reason for the number 128, but it also happens to be double the number of possible codons in DNA. The “clef” in Clefairy means “musical key,” or in French simply “key.” Clefairy’s trademark move is metronome, which replicates most other Pokémon moves through the magic of synchronization. What would the world be like if this memetic sprite succeeded in its role as mascot of Pokémon? Would the world be all the more entranced?

When it comes to seeking an audience, Bar ‘M Bar is even wider in its accommodation than its sibling MissingNo. It can be encountered with any name at all – besides the preset options! Bar ‘M Bar’s own actual name, [][][][]M’[][][][] is certainly its most obvious difference. The bars on either side of the ‘M are determined by the actions of the player – Bulbapedia sums it up nicely:

It is most commonly known as 'M, since these are the only typographical characters in its name—its real name is impossible to produce with text, and some tiles in its name are not constant. It is also called 'M Block due to either the glitchy blocks next to its name or the Pokémon's boxy shape.

The first two tiles in [][][][] ‘M [][][][][]'s name depend on which sprite is occupying the spot where the player's Pokémon appears. In battle, the tiles on the left of its name will copy part of the sprite in the bottom-left corner of the screen (the player's Pokémon), while the block on the right will copy part of the sprite in the upper-right corner of the screen (the opponent's Pokémon). Out of battle, the blocks in its name will change depending on the player's location.

We know that MissingNo’s name is constant, and its form is undefined, a result of the player’s bestowed name. On the other hand, Bar ‘M Bar is a definite outcome for any bestowed name, but its own name is defined by the player! Yet it always retains the ‘M in the middle, which is tempting to interpret as the conjunction n’ (and). It looks as though Bar ‘M Bar’s name is something like “This n’ That.” And indeed, that’s what the sprites which comprise the bars draw from: the player’s Pokémon and the opponent’s Pokémon. The fact that these two glitchy blocks are separated by something close to “and” is a beautiful detail. It takes these two oppositional beings and phrases them both, but does so with the separation intact. If it lacked the ‘M between the two samples it would give a different impression. It is the difference between hendiadys (good and ready) and a modified adjective (well ready). It acknowledges that the two things are distinct and in concert, yet they are termed by Bar ‘M Bar in a single body. There is an endless mystery surrounding the mythological motif of 2-in-1, but it is often explored in alchemy and Jungian psychology through the image of the coniunctio, the holy marriage, the reconciliation of opposites.

Can we even say that Bar ‘M Bar is a single entity? It certainly has the strong dual aspect of its twin, MissingNo. Are these two glitch Pokémon the same or not? In the coding of the game, they are not. None of MissingNo’s forms share the constitution of Bar ‘M Bar. Yet they are defined in the Pokédex – the pantheon of the player’s understanding – in the same place, #000, and therein utter the same cry (Rhydon’s). They share an identical sprite and learn nearly identical moves. They cause the same glitch effects to occur in game. The strongest evidence for seeing them as representations of the same essence is in popular conception: Bar ‘M Bar is frequently referred to as MissingNo, and was the first of many other glitch Pokémon subsumed under the generic description of “MissingNo.” It is almost technical trivia to separate them. And most tellingly for the sake of this investigation, they complete each other’s symbolism. So, they are discrete entities AND they aren’t. The mystery of the coniunctio is thus further embodied in this dual being.   The Lingering Presence Now that we’ve outlined the taxonomy of MissingNo+, we can begin to look at the consequences. The two most well-known effects of meeting MissingNo are the Item Duplication Glitch and the Hall of Fame glitch. Item duplication occurs after any encounter with MissingNo or Bar ‘M Bar, regardless of whether the player has fled, caught the creature, or knocked it out. When examining the bag after the battle, the player will find that the 6th item in their inventory has been increased by 128 (although this does not occur if the value is already over 128). Given that a player can reorder their inventory at will, this was a famous exploit for getting hundreds of Rare Candies in order to quickly max out any Pokémon’s level, or generating 128 Master Balls ensuring the capture of any creature you meet from then on. Indeed, this is the most common reason for performing the old man glitch, and likely the critical factor in MissingNo’s renown. And what fuel for the legend: a bizarre seaside vision that grants a wish. Another popular exploit is duplicated fossils, normally given only once per game, so that you could resurrect 100 Kabuto, Omanyte, or Aerodactyl. But any item is fair game: you could effectively wish for infinite wealth, health, lives, moves, defense, speed, power, whatever. You hooked the magic fish, what you do with it is up to you.

The experience also corrupts your Hall of Fame data, replacing some of the images with blocks of static, and scrambling names and values of your champion Pokémon. This is a largely inconsequential effect, but it has symbolic weight. Each Pokémon that exists is a symbol of some kind, representing an attitude, or an attribute, and as you go along meeting them and incorporating them into yourself, they accumulate further personal meanings. So consciously or unconsciously, the Pokémon that accompany you to your final battle are in some sense a mirror of the player: they represent your priorities, values, and appreciations. These are the ones canonized by the game in the Hall of Fame. MissingNo then transforms this composite irreparably. This act can be seen a psychic realignment of the player-character.

Summary

Let’s imagine the story of meeting MissingNo as a fairly tale. The protagonist, Red, talks to an Old Man at the edge of town who shows him how to catch a worm. Next, Red flies through the skies to a volcanic island. There on the Eastern shore of the island, he swims the coast. Attracted by his name, some number of foreign beasts appear before him, culminating in the appearance of a totally unexpected entity which defies easy categorization (though there are partial physical descriptions in some versions of the story). He then defeats, captures, or flees from the apparition. Then looking in his bag, he finds some object or capacity of his has been magnified to a superhuman extent. Finally, we find that some of his major psychic precepts have been mysteriously and radically altered for evermore.

So what then what was the encounter? An alien? A deity or holy ghost? The pneuma which animates life? Is it an unconscious complex made manifest? A psychotic break? The disorienting eruption of the Real? Is it a highly coherent and synchronous glitch-experience, or a pareidoliac imprint in static? I don’t believe that any of these answers satisfy in themselves. Like the images of MissingNo, the interpretations are interdependent, forming points along the circumference of a subject whose middle cannot be approached by the intellect. What is easier to parse is the influence of MissingNo on the fanbase. MissingNo is so famous as a glitch that it has become the common shorthand for any glitch Pokémon throughout the series. MissingNo and Bar ‘M Bar have inspired not only countless tall tales, but tons of fiction, fanart, merch, and a featured article on Bulbapedia. Using our imagination, it is rather easy to place MissingNo into the narrative context of the game, conceptualizing it any of the above ways. As much as this being seems keen to disrupt our in-game immersion, it seems equally willing to stride across our imagination, as though it were walking a bridge leading into the world of Pokémon, or our own reality, or wherever its place of origin.

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The Game is On (Part 1)

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader (AU)

Word Count: 1,665

Warnings: cuteness, fluffy, jealousy over Steve not being your boyfriend?

Summary: You and Steve have been together for six years, happily living life in your Brooklyn apartment. On the night of your six-year anniversary, you come home to find a folded note on the table with your name written in Steve’s scripted handwriting. Inside? Instructions to your own personal treasure hunt to find your surprise - and Steve - at the end, and you have 20 minutes to start! The game is on…

A/N: So this is part of @bionic-buckyb‘s 5K writing challenge and I got so excited over the prompt and the ideas that came to mind that I HAD to start writing ASAP. I hope you enjoy following the game as much as I enjoyed writing it <3 Prompt: “I’ve been trying to get ready for like, a half hour, because I know you’re going to look damn good and I don’t want to look like a potato.”

Also - I’m Australian but I tried to use the American Medical School/Training program regime in place of the one we have because it seems to be the one that is most recognized by people regardless of where they’re from. At least to me. I’M SORRY IF IT’S WRONG!

** = flashback scene

It had been a long day at the hospital today, the traumas just seemed to be non-stop, so you were very excited to get home and crawl into Steve’s arms. If he was home. With you an ER doctor, and he a medical resident, you had chaotic jobs and even more chaotic hours, but you made it work and he was often home before you.

Although lately he’d been a bit more checked out than usual, his head all over the place as he was getting further through his residency. His dream was to become an ER/Trauma doctor, like you, but go on to enlist in the Army and work as an Army Doctor, helping those on the front lines. It helped him immensely that he worked as an EMT first.

As you opened the door to your shared brooklyn apartment, you were met with darkness and silence, so you turned on the light and made your way through to the bedroom. You shot off a quick text to Steve to let him know you were home, put yourself through a quick shower, and changed into some shorts and one of Steve’s shirts, before you walked back out into the main room to start making dinner. As you walked passed the dining table, you noticed a slip of white paper with your name in familiar scripted handwriting on the front. You couldn’t help the smile that crept across your face, the warmth that blossomed in your chest.

My love,

I haven’t forgotten that it’s our six-year anniversary today, so in honour of these amazing six years with you I have designed a treasure hunt. There are six clues, one for each year and this is the first. At the end, you will find me and your surprise waiting. Don’t be late, you have to leave in 20 minutes. I love you.

Steve.

Clue #1: You’re beautiful and smart, saving lives is what we do, here in these white walls, is where I saw and fell in love with you.

You felt yourself do a little jump, excitement pooling in your stomach as you thought about what he could’ve gotten you in surprise for your anniversary. You had gotten him a New York Yankees baseball tee and managed to get it signed by the whole team, but it took you months and you had hidden it in one of your shoe boxes, praying he wouldn’t find it. You raced into your room and snatched it out, relief flooding through to know it was still a surprise, when you noticed your phone flashing to alert you to a message.

**1 New Message: Steve**

- I hope you’re as excited as I am. You’ll need to dress up doll, the black dress you never wear would be perfect - you know which one I’m talking about xo

On your fourth anniversary, you’d bought this beautiful black form-fitting dress: belted waist, exposed back, sleek pencil skirt, and lace framing the top of the dress and forming ¾ of the sleeves. Steve had seen it hanging up but you didn’t feel comfortable wearing it out, you thought it made you look ‘frumpy’ - squishing you to have rolls everywhere. Steve had laughed and assured you that you’d never looked frumpy to him, just beautiful, and he’d deigned to show you just how beautiful you were that night in bed.

You quickly typed out a reply - Only for you handsome xo - and raced to the bathroom to begin getting ready. You pulled your (Y/H/C) hair into a side ponytail, leaving out stray strands to frame your face, and curled the ends and stray pieces. The hair was always the easy part but make-up was your kryptonite. You could do the basics - face, lipstick, mascara - but that was it. Anything more and you ended up looking like you survived a cosmetic factory explosion.

You stared down at the eyeshadow palette in front of you, decided it was more afraid of you than you were of it, and pulled up some YouTube tutorials on smoky eyes to follow. Once you finished the eyes, you carefully applied the eyeliner like you were dismantling a bomb - your surgical skills and steady hands came in handy. Finally happy, you turned to apply your lipstick when you saw your phone flashing again.

**1 New Message: Steve”**

- Have you left yet? Xo

 Shit. You had gone over the 20 minutes he’d given you. You sighed, replying to him quickly so you could begin the game.

- I’ve been trying to get ready for like, a half hour, because I know you’re going to look damn good and I don’t want to look like a potato. I’m nearly done I swear xo

You saw the response bubbles pop up immediately -

- You’ve never looked like a potato in your life, next to you I’m the potato and you’re the frenchiest fry - the goddess of fries, the most beautiful type of potato. And I love french fries… xo

You laughed to yourself as you replied -

- Ok fry-lover, I’m walking out the door now! See you soon, I love you xo

- I love you too xo

You put on your red lipstick and matching red heels and took off out the door, folding Steve’s present safely into your bag and grasping your phone and the note in your hand as you stepped out into the street to hail a taxi.

This clue was easy. You’d met at the hospital in your ER - he’d just bought in a trauma and you’d been crazy busy so he stayed with you to help and be an extra set of hands. Once the patient had stabilised and been taken up into the OR by the leading trauma doctor, you’d found him outside.

**

“Hey, thanks for sticking around to help out in there. It really made all the difference.”

You stuck your hand out to shake his, noting his crystal blue eyes. He was beautiful, but you were gone when he smiled at you - he had you.

“No problem, just doing my job like you’re doing yours. I’m Steve.”

“Well thank you anyway Steve, I’m (Y/N)”

You smiled at him, ignoring the butterflies in your stomach threatening to burst out, and pulled away to walk back inside when you felt him grab your hand again.

“Hey wait, um, did you want to maybe grab dinner sometime or see a movie or something?”

He ran his fingers through his hair, uncertainty on his face and you realized he was actually nervous. Why would someone as gorgeous as him be nervous?

“I’d love to! Are you into Harry Potter? Please tell me you are!”

He breathed a sigh of relief, letting out a small chuckle, but by God it was music.

“I’ve only seen a couple of them - don’t hate me!”

You feigned shock horror - “WELL! How about we sit and watch them all before we go and see the final one in cinemas? Call it a pre-date?”

“It’s a date then! Or a pre-date…” He shot you the most brilliant smile, red flooding into his cheeks and it took a lot of energy not to kiss him right there. You scribbled your number onto a piece of paper and handed it over, “call or text me anytime Steve, I look forward to our pre-date.”

With that, you walked back inside the hospital doors, missing seeing him put his arms up in success and his fellow EMT give him a high five.

(Steve’s POV)

“So you finally asked her out huh? My man!”

“I can’t believe it, she actually said yes! She even called it a date!”

Steve was beside himself. He’d seen you here months before, but never had the courage to talk to you and there had never been an opportunity to. Emergencies were emergencies, and by the time the patients were stable, he’d either be rushing to the next one or you were gone - off being a hero.

“Man, you have been in love with this girl FOREVER, I’m just glad you’ll finally shut up about pining after her like a lost puppy!” With that, he gave Steve a small punch in the arm.

“Now I’ll get to go on and on about our date!”

His friend groaned, walking back to the ambulance to begin cleaning it and getting ready for the next call out.

Steve was euphoric for the rest of his shift.

**

(Your POV)

Heading back to the hospital, you began to worry about what your colleagues might think with you showing up looking like this. You were all friends, and quite close, but you all rarely saw each other outside of work and this dressed up, having different rosters and hours, and the bonus of being on call. You worried at the hem of your dress, beginning to feel the self-conscious anxieties seeping in. No, this is for Steve, he wanted this and you would do anything for him. You can survive a treasure hunt in this dress.

You paid your fare and stepped through to the emergency room, feeling as though every available set of eyes was suddenly on you. You calmly walked up to the front desk, where you were met with rounds of compliments and coos over Steve’s plan - apparently, everyone was informed of his instructions and were all gushing over how romantic it was - before they finally gave you his second clue. You thanked them all earnestly before stepping back outside to open it.

Clue #2: You caught me up on his story, but ours began on the seventh part, go to where you taught me magic is real, the first time you stole into my heart.

You furrowed your brow, thinking back on the things you’d shown Steve over the years. Magic? Story? Oh God how could you not see it! You ran to the side of the street to get another taxi, your heart racing as you thought about what clue was waiting at your next destination.

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The 6 Best and Worst Wonder Wo’ments: Latest DCU film explores the peaks and valleys of humanity and nerd-dom

Before we start, let me say that Wonder Woman has much more to love than the run-of-the-mill comic book movies that have been released every other month for the past ten years. It has a heart, a message, some spectacular aesthetics and more than one actor pulling their own weight. You could certainly do a lot worse that to give it a few hours of your time.

That being said, much like the way the film explores the wonderful and terrible potential of human choice, the movie is also a roller coaster ride of cringe-worthy cliches squaring off against flashes of brilliance. In the end, Gal Gadot’s historical fiction free-for-all comes out on top, but it mostly serves as a “do this, not that” tutorial for making super-hero movies. Click below to get the full SPOILER-FILLED breakdown of the 6 best and worst Wonder Wo’ments.

THE GOOD- Start with a Slow Burn

Tony Stark’s escape from the cave. Bruce Wayne’s journey up a mountain. Heck, even Mr. Incredible’s wedding night… The greatest comic book films have all taken their sweet time with exposition, layering sympathetic characterization over a healthy dose of Pathos while establishing an interesting setting/premise and building up to a big reveal.  Diana’s debut now joins those ranks, with a child actress who will utterly rob you of all your tears as she is marched around a stunningly beautiful Themyscira by a legion of bad mama jama matriarchs. This movie starts STRONG, and before long you’ll wish the story stayed on “Paradise Island.”

THE BAD- End with a Fizzle

Like so many Iron Man 2’s and Dark Knights Rises’es (yeesh), this movie simply runs a little too long and fails to present a satisfying final act. By the time the obligatory CGI boss battle rolls around, you will have spent almost two full hours in the deliberately washed-out world of men, nostalgic for the much more imaginative and fun female-centric setting this movie started in.

THE GOOD- A Hero with a Heart

In an age where special effects seem less than special, it’s not simply enough for a hero to be a bad-ass anymore. If you want the audience to really get behind the story, the lead needs to inject empathy, likeability, and what the French call a certain je ne sais quoi. Good movies like “Ant Man” often use humor to soften you up, but Gal Gadot’s Diana uses her unwavering sense of justice and selflessness to win you over almost instantly. Whether she is dishing out sincere compliments to ice cream vendors or encouraging a shell-shocked soldier to sing again, Gadot’s smile and optimistic spirit are infectious.

THE BAD- A Lame-Ass Villain That Should Keep his Damn Mask On

Take a look at these images, and tell me if you notice a pattern.

Yep, they are all way less intimidating sans mask. And the Wonder Woman baddie is no different… The aforementioned final battle against Ares is probably the worst ten minutes of the movie, which is a shame because it’s supposed to be the big finale. Seeing Professor Lupin floating around the battlefield was so awkward that I audibly breathed a sigh of relief when he assembled his trademark battle armor, but then like the films pictured above, the movie kept cutting in close to reveal the bristly mustache of a British gentleman. Plus, he delivers classic lines like, “I will destroy you!” *slow clap that transitions into full blown smh*

THE GOOD- Superhero Stories Work Best as Metaphors for Meatier Topics

“Captain America: Winter Soldier” made us all look at our smart-phones with a little less trust. “Snowpiercer” made us contemplate just how far the 1% would go to stay on top. And now Wonder Woman marches into battle with an ironically anti-war message that is certain to rile a few feathers. The depiction of the nightmare that was World War 1 is unflinchingly brutal, compared to the first Captain America movie that made World War 2 look like a fun jaunt through the woods. There are feminist arrows launched at the throats of bloated, cowardly white men every few scenes, and even race issues get touched upon with true sincerity, albeit briefly. Every underlying bit of tension resonates today, and you can’t help but wish the Amazons got involved in modern day politics. They would have this whole mess sorted out with a single slow motion spear flourish.

THE BAD- Fill in the Plot Holes with More CG!

Remember that scene in Batman v. Superman where Clark impales himself on a kryptonite spear to kill Doomsday? Everyone in the theatre was quietly wondering why he didn’t just give the weapon to Wonder Woman, who, you know, could totally have used it without destroying herself!

Cut to one year later, and Zach Snyder is making the same mistakes all over again (I assume it was him because the entire stupid last act had his greasy fingerprints all over it). Steve’s sacrifice is sufficiently heart-wrenching, mostly thanks to the two actors realistic portrayals of the moments directly before and after the death of a loved one, but one can’t help but wonder…

Why didn’t Diana just blow up the plane? We see her survive MUCH bigger explosions, and there was no real reason she couldn’t have dealt with that threat first and then had a face off with Ares after. So why did Chris Pine need to die? Oh yeah… “I can save the day. You can save the world!” Sorry dude, but she’s Wonder Woman. She could do both. But it looks like the one thing she can’t defeat is a lazy script. PS: What was with all the lightning? Was she getting super-charged by Ares? Is that how she unleashed the kamehameha? You know what? Nevermind. GRADE FOR THE FIRST HALF HOUR: A+

GRADE FOR THE LAST HALF HOUR: D

FINAL GRADE FOR THE WHOLE KIT & KABOODLE: C+